A is any one of several traditional

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

hats. These include and .

Grammar and etymology

is the correct way to pronounce the word when it stands alone. causes to change to when it is preceded by another word specifying the type of hat, as in . shares its etymology with the Japanese word for "umbrella" (also pronounced , but written as ).

Types of

A number of different styles of exist. Varieties of were used throughout most all levels of Japanese society. Some types of include: * : a wickerwork made of shaven bamboo or wood. * : a wickerwork . An is a straw hat of the type traditionally worn in some Japanese folk dances. * : a deep wickerwork . * : a type of commonly worn by samurai and (foot soldiers). The samurai class in feudal Japan, as well as their retainers and footsoldiers, used several types of made from

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wood Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin ...

paper Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distrib ...

bamboo Bamboos are a diverse group of evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family. The origin of the word "bamboo" is uncertain, ...

, or

leather Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay. The most common leathers come from cattle, sheep, goats, equine animals, buffalo, pigs and hog ...

. almost always had crests on them. * : typically a conical with a flat top, often worn by . * : a bamboo for traveling with a wide, flat shape that offered protection from the sun and rain. Favored by , couriers who regularly traveled between Edo and Kyoto. * : a wickerwork made of sedge. * : a Buddhist mendicant's . A woven rice-straw worn by mendicant

Buddhist monks A ''bhikkhu'' (Pali: भिक्खु, Sanskrit: भिक्षु, ''bhikṣu'') is an ordained male in Buddhist monasticism. Male and female monastics ("nun", ''bhikkhunī'', Sanskrit ''bhikṣuṇī'') are members of the Sangha (Buddhist ...

, the is made overlarge and in a bowl or mushroom shape. Unlike an Asian conical hat, it does not come to a point, nor does it ride high on the head like a

samurai were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. They were the well-paid retainers of the '' daimyo'' (the great feudal landholders). They h ...

's traveling hat, instead covering the upper half to two-thirds of the face, masking the identity of the monk and allowing him to travel undistracted on his journey. * : (see ) * : a folded , famously worn for the

Awa Dance Festival The is held from 12 to 15 August as part of the Obon festival in Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku in Japan. Awa Odori is the largest dance festival in Japan, attracting over 1.3 million tourists every year. Groups of choreographed dancers and mu ...

. * : the family crest of

Yagyū clan The were a family of ''daimyōs'' (feudal lords) with lands just outside Nara, who became the heads of one of Japan's greatest schools of swordsmanship, Yagyū Shinkage-ryū. The Yagyū were also Kenjutsu teachers to the Tokugawa shōguns and des ...

, not an actual kind of .

Gallery

Image:Japanese buddhist monk hat by Arashiyama cut.jpg, A Buddhist monk wearing a . Image:A begging criminal-J. M. W. Silver.jpg, The hat in this print is a of the sort known as , worn by , mendicant monks of Fuke Zen. Image:Awaod001.jpg, These women at the

wear the characteristic of the dance. Image:Return of the Samurai 14.JPG, Various from the ''Return of the Samurai'' exhibition of Samurai art and artifacts, held in the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada in 2010. Image:50番繁多寺前で托鉢する遍路P1010122.jpg, A Buddhist pilgrim begging for alms outside a Buddhist temple.

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